Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths? Fourteen washrags, Ed Van Ess? Must be going to give em to the church, I guess. He drinks, you know. The day we m…

Keen and lovely man moved as in a… to be considerate in lighted, glas… almost outdoor office. Business wasn’t all he knew. He knew music,… Had a heart. “With eyes like your…

Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk

Feign a great calm; all gay transport soon ends. Chant: who knows— flight’s end or flight’s beginning for the resting gull?

Old Mother turns blue and from us… “Don’t let my head drop to the ear… I’m blind and deaf.” Death from t… a thimble in her purse. “It’s a long day since last night.

He lived—childhood summers thru bare feet then years of money’s lack and heat beside the river—out of flood

I rose from marsh mud, algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs to see her wed in the rich

The wild and wavy event now chintz at the window was revolution . . . Adams to Miss Abigail Smith:

In the great snowfall before the b… colored yule tree lights windows, the only glow for contemp… along this road I worked the print shop

The chemist creates the brazen approximation: Life Thy will be done

I married in the world’s black night for warmth if not repose. At the close—

My wife is ill! And I sit waiting for a quorum Fast ride

Nothing worth noting except an Andromeda with quadrangular shoots— the boots of the people